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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Clarke considered Afghanistan a ______ on the road to Iraq.
(a) Detour.
(b) Practice attempt.
(c) Bump in the road.
(d) Stop.

2. Richard Perle was managing partner of what company?
(a) Trireme Partnership.
(b) Thilliad Partnership.
(c) Tristan Partnership.
(d) Triad Partnership.

3. Why did lawyers have very little access to Moussaoui?
(a) The F.B.I. didn't let lawyers near him.
(b) He didn't speak English.
(c) He represented himself.
(d) He was held in a remote location.

4. When did Abu Ghraib become a U.S. prison?
(a) December 2003.
(b) Mid-2003.
(c) Late 2003.
(d) Early 2003.

5. What was the code name for the U.S. Army offensive in western Afghanistan?
(a) Operation Gorilla.
(b) Operation Anaconda.
(c) Operation Sky-drop.
(d) Operation Mule.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did a CIA analyst say was being committed against the detainees in Cuba?

2. What was the President's Special Access Program used in Iraq against?

3. Where were the Egyptians taken when seized from Sweden?

4. What was the chain of command like in the Iraqi prisons?

5. What magazine has Hersh written for since the early 1990s?

Short Essay Questions

1. When was a chance to develop an ally in Syria thwarted?

2. What did General Janis Karpinski's background consist of?

3. Why was it unclear that was in charge at the Iraqi prisons?

4. What were some of the issues the CIA faced, starting with the collapse of the Soviet Union in the late eighties?

5. How did Chalabi work with the CIA in March of 1995?

6. What had the U.S. succeeded in stabilizing more than a year after Rumsfeld's pronouncement of Afghanistan's successes?

7. What happened when the U.S. challenged North Korea, diplomatically, about stopping nuclear operations in October 2002?

8. What was the positive spin the media put on the first day of operations in Operation Anaconda?

9. Who was disturbed by the conditions at Guantanamo?

10. Who made up the group of Special Forces that escalated the covert war in Iraq during 2003?

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